Trends and Implications

Online Learning

Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” a survey of Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” a survey of more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf)(http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf)

Enrollments in Online Learning

Sloan Survey Summary– Online enrollments continue to grow at rates far in

excess of the total higher education student population, with no signs of slowing.

– Over twenty percent of all U.S. higher education students were taking at least one online course in the fall of 2007.

– 58% of the sampled institutions state that online learning is critical to their institutional strategy.

Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” an annual survey of more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Sloan Consortium. http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf

Why Online Learning?Flexibility, Convenience, Economy, Efficiency.

From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006, http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_success_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf

Less Important Reasons

From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006, http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_success_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf

Why NOT Online Learning?

From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006, http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_success_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf

What’s Changed Out There?• Social Trends

– Technology goes “Main Street”• Moore's Law: processor speed doubles every 18 months • Cell Phones, GPS, MP3 players, smart cars• Use of Internet for everyday (leisure) tasks:

shopping, reading, movies, TV, radio, etc.

– GenNet - the Internet has always “been there.”• Instant Messenger, email, music files, INTERNET!• MySpace, FaceBook, You-Tube, INTERNET!• Social networking, entertainment, INTERNET!

– The nature of education is changing. Recommended:• Portal to Information Literacy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s)

• New Answers for E-Learning – Wikis and avatars are improving the educational experience (http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/e-learning/2008/01/10/new-answers-for-e-learning.html, 2008)

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BasementContains traditional technologies: textbooks, audiovisual materials, etc.Contains infrastructure to use these technologies: libraries, labs, etc.

First Floor

Real-Time Interactions-SeminarsOffice Hours

Time-DelayedInteractions-Homework

Learning By Doing-Labs-Writing-Libraries

Directed Lecture-Lecture Hall-Textbooks

Second FloorContains enhancements to 1st floor practicesRequires the use of instructional technologies

Third FloorContains large-scale structures that support

new educational concepts such as Distributed Learning and Online Learning

Stephen C. Ehrmann (1998) “Technology in Higher Education”

Technology Adoption Lifecycle

From Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery A. Moore, 1998

Moore’s “Chasm”

From Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery A. Moore, 1998